Nage Te  (Throwing arts)

Nage Te is commonly referred to as the throwing arts.  But I prefer to think of it as cutting, or, cutting the root out from someone. Think of how you throw a football or baseball and you will see that you are really not throwing a person, but cutting or sweeping out their base by getting under their center of gravity.

Nage Te (sometimes referred to as Nage No Kata, or just Nage) is the second kata of Danzan-Ryu Jujutsu and deals with methods of throwing an opponent to the ground. These techniques are similar to those found in the Nage no Kata from Kodokan Judo.

Prof. Henry Seishiro Okazaki made the following analogy: "This principle can be compared to the strength of an individual who can control and manipulate a boat at ease and at will so long as the boat is floating on water, whereas the moment the boat finds itself on land it often defies the attempt of several strong men to move it."